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Monthly Archives: March 2008

My heart breaks for Chelsea

I just got finished reading a most disturbing story of a teen who had lupus and died. She disagreed with the doctors treatment and wanted to go off of her meds because she felt the complications were ultimately hurting her worse than the disease. She wanted to look into other holistic options. [...]

About the Video Below

Wick Davis from the Lupus Foundations Blog, On the Road to a Cure, was nice enough to share this new public service announcement. It features Sarah Chalke who stars in Scrubs. One of the producers for scrubs, Randall Winston has a sister with lupus.
Thanks Wick
Until next time
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Lupus, A Challenging Ailment

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It’s a New Day

A little medical update on me: I still hurt! hahaha. That about sums it up. My neuro is helping me, (thank God) he thinks the muscle involvement could be due to the possible short fiber neuropathy and he contacted the hospital to try and speed up the referral for the punch biopsy. [...]

And they go unanswered, for now…

I had a feeling that this would happen.  I’ve experienced it far too many times these past couple of years.  When a doc doesn’t know what to do, they throw in the towel.  My husband called the rheumy’s office for the blood test results and was told by the nurse that the lab missed running [...]